Quote from finres:

Wordworks: I like your work. Its going to take a brick for some people but you see the light at the end of the tunnel and know its a train. You might like the JAMA article that was published in the January 3, 1996 issue. It is titled "Carcinogenicity of lipid-Lowering Drugs" the site is [url]www.captainclark.com/Pages/jamareport.html[/url] Also I was wondering what you thouht about the following: Just read an article by the associated press titled "Cholesterol-lowering pill may also fight cancer". In the article they state "...pills called statins, already widely prescribed to prevent heart attacks..." What scares me about the public is sometimes that is all they read. They don't read the Lipitor label that plainly states, "....Lipitor has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attacks..." This was Lipitor's own ad in a recent AARP magazine. The JAMA article states that the statins are one of the most carcinogenic products ever created. Why do you think we keep getting blasted by "the wonderful statin drug" articles? Do you think the makers of the products are trying to pull in as much money as they can before the rug is pulled out from under them? In the mean time it concerns me the people that are being severly damaged in the mean time. I value you opinion.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was a participant in the Mevacor study. It turned out I was on Mevacor and it significantly lowered my cholsesterol levels. I was a master sergeant on active duty at Brooke Army Medical Center during the year that I was in the study. In fact, I had to get the Army's permission to take part in the study.

After I came off of the drug and learned I was one of the patients that was receiving Mevacor and not the placebo, I received two months supply from Merck. Then I attempted to have a prescription filled at the Army hospital and was told by the pharmacist that each tablet cost $9.00 and the Army would not make Mevacor a part of its formulary until patients tried other less expensive methods of lowering their cholesterol.

It is definitely a money game and statins are the latest and greatest cash cows of the pharmaceutical companies, pure and simple. They are businesses who must answer to their stockholders before they answer to the patients who make them their huge profits.

Thank you for your kind words, Arizona73 and Finres. I am seriously considering the Pauling formula, however, I discussed it with my cardiologist, who did not have anything negative to say about it but thought the medications he has me on will accomplish much of what the formula does without costing me $76 plus shipping a month. I do feel much better now. My symptoms have been absent for two days now. Unfortunately, maintaining my health has cost me more than I would actually like it to so far this year and I need to cut back on my spending. However, if I can afford the Pauling Formula in the future, I probably will start taking a maintenance dose every day. That would only cost about $38 a month.

Jeff :jester: